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• 'American Idol': Who needs movies when you have real life?
• The films scheduled for Cannes don't inspire much excitement
• 'Dancing With the Stars' results: Shake it off
• ESPN lands new 3-D channel on Comcast cable systems
• 'Best Worst Movie' brings the trolls back to L.A.
• Album review: The National's 'High Violet'
• 'Lost': Happy we'll be, across the sea
• Cannes Festival ready for its close-up -- is it still worth it?
• Electronic Arts posts first profitable quarter in three years
• With TV Everywhere, pay-TV industry seeks to fend off an Apple invasion

'American Idol': Who needs movies when you have real life? Posted: 12 May 2010 07:36 AM PDT Ann Powers: The song choices of our Top Four reflected little thought about how a song can feed a film's drama (or comedy).

The films scheduled for Cannes don't inspire much excitement Posted: 12 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT From this vantage, the about-to-open festival in nature-beset France presents a lineup that is neither weak nor particularly strong. Mother Nature has not been kind to the 63rd Festival de Cannes, and it remains to be seen whether or not the films will follow suit.

'Dancing With the Stars' results: Shake it off Posted: 12 May 2010 07:45 AM PDT This week, it was comedian and all-around joy Niecy Nash's turn to go.

ESPN lands new 3-D channel on Comcast cable systems Posted: 12 May 2010 08:45 AM PDT The nation's largest cable operator, Comcast Corp., has jumped on the 3-D bandwagon.

'Best Worst Movie' brings the trolls back to L.A. Posted: 12 May 2010 07:58 AM PDT The quirky retrospective returns to Los Angeles.

Album review: The National's 'High Violet' Posted: 11 May 2010 06:07 PM PDT The 11 songs on The National's fifth album flow through the ears like an inky river with a top layer of prismatic sheen, like gasoline on black water. The 11 songs on The National's fifth album flow through the ears like an inky river with a top layer of prismatic sheen, like gasoline on black water.

'Lost': Happy we'll be, across the sea Posted: 12 May 2010 07:50 AM PDT The promise of what's at the other end of a mystery is almost always more interesting than what's actually there.

Cannes Festival ready for its close-up -- is it still worth it? Posted: 11 May 2010 10:20 PM PDT If Telluride/Toronto/Venice in early September is the "official" start of the season, then Cannes is the "unofficial" start.

Electronic Arts posts first profitable quarter in three years Posted: 11 May 2010 07:48 PM PDT Sales rose 14% in the fourth quarter to allow the video game maker to record a $30-million profit, compared with a $42-million loss a year earlier. Electronic Arts ended a three-year string of losses by posting higher sales and a return to profitability in its fourth quarter, fueled by sales of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mass Effect and Dante's Inferno.

With TV Everywhere, pay-TV industry seeks to fend off an Apple invasion Posted: 12 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT Fearful that they'll suffer the same fate as the music business, television firms are racing to come up with services such as TV Everywhere, which would let paying customers view shows on any device. Last fall, Apple Inc.'s head of Internet services began making the Hollywood rounds with a proposal to launch a subscription television service that would offer a package of broadcast shows for $10 a month.

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